This painting is of the Virgin holding her baby, in her left arm. This painting is based on the on a Byzantine type known as the
Virgin Hodegetria. As you can see Jesus holds a scroll in her hand.
Berlinghiero was to be the most important painter of thirteen-century Lucca.
Madonna and Child
This painting is of the Virgin holding her baby, in her left arm. This painting is based on the on a Byzantine type known as the
Virgin Hodegetria. As you can see Jesus holds a scroll in her hand.
Berlinghiero was to be the most important painter of thirteen-century Lucca.
Source: The Glory of Byzantium